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A Pi Curiosity

I’m quite sad that I missed this on pi day this year but I thought I should share it now..

For this years (special) pi day Wolfram Research have produced a web page mypiday.com that enables you to find the location of your birthday in the digits of pi – it is well known that any date will appear within the digits. Here is the location of my birthday:

Stephen Wolfram also wrote a fairly interesting blog post about the creation of this site using the capabilities of the new Wolfram Language.